Re:The App Store does not protect consumers
by lapcat on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @06:39PM
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> Buy now, bill me later is a pretty common thing in retail.
I haven't seen this.
> Likewise, Amazon (and some other online clothing retailers) offer "try it on at home first, pay after you decide to keep it" models.
This is actually news to me. Anyway, it's certainly not the traditional physical store model that we've had for decades/centuries/millennia. And Amazon is problematic in its own way, but I don't want to get into that whole thing here.
> And then there's sit down restaurants which allow you to order as much as you want and pay after you've eaten.
This is not a good analogy. You don't get to walk out of the restaurant without paying. The food doesn't have a trial period. If you ordered it, you pay for it on the bill. Restaurants let you pay at the end of the meal because they want you to keep ordering as many drinks as possible.
I haven't seen this.
> Likewise, Amazon (and some other online clothing retailers) offer "try it on at home first, pay after you decide to keep it" models.
This is actually news to me. Anyway, it's certainly not the traditional physical store model that we've had for decades/centuries/millennia. And Amazon is problematic in its own way, but I don't want to get into that whole thing here.
> And then there's sit down restaurants which allow you to order as much as you want and pay after you've eaten.
This is not a good analogy. You don't get to walk out of the restaurant without paying. The food doesn't have a trial period. If you ordered it, you pay for it on the bill. Restaurants let you pay at the end of the meal because they want you to keep ordering as many drinks as possible.